Moment ago, surrounded by children political props, our Imperial President had the temerity to say, ”The only way we can change is if the American people demand it.” And then without giving the American people or Congress a chance to weigh in, he signed 23 Executive Orders in a brazen attack on our Liberty and the second amendment.
UPDATE — OK, so obviously these aren’t all Executive Orders. It’s more of a “To Do” list. Which makes it all the more pathetic. Crazy Uncle Joe spent 2 months brainstorming ideas, and this is all he came up with?
Here they are:
- Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.
- Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.
- Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.
- Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.
- Propose rule making to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.
- Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers.
- Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign.
- Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).
- Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.
- Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make it widely available to law enforcement.
- Nominate an ATF director.
- Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations.
- Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime.
- Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.
- Direct the Attorney General to issue a report on the availability and most effective use of new gun safety technologies and challenge the private sector to develop innovative technologies.
- Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.
- Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.
- Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.
- Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education.
- Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover.
- Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.
- Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.
- Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health.
Twitter Stuff
Some comments I tweeted or retweeted while watching (as painful as it was) Obama:
RT @keder: The well-being of the kids Obama will use as props today is far more threatened by the debt Obama is racking up than by guns.
— Melissa Clouthier (@MelissaTweets) January 16, 2013
The explict intent of the Second Amendment is to threaten, and if necessary, kill tyrants. Any other utility it may have is incidental.
— Bob Owens (@bob_owens) January 16, 2013
So our rights and the course of our country are being determined by the thoughts and sentiments of children? Actual children.
— Donald Arey III (@DonaldAreyIII) January 16, 2013
“I intend to use whatever weight this office holds…” (executive orders) to destroy the second amendment. #WarOnGuns
— Robbie Cooper (@RobbieCooper) January 16, 2013
So, Obama wants to protect fundamental rights by stripping the most important fundamental right of all. #WarOnGuns
— Robbie Cooper (@RobbieCooper) January 16, 2013
The constitution is the rule of the land, not what a “majority of Americans” believe or want. #WarOnGuns
— Robbie Cooper (@RobbieCooper) January 16, 2013
We should get tougher on those who buy guns w intent of turning around & selling to criminals. You mean exactly like Fast & Furious?
— Robbie Cooper (@RobbieCooper) January 16, 2013
Why didn’t @barackobama have any 15-year-old gang members from Chicago sitting behind him? #guncontrol #tcot #lnyht #2ndAmendment
— Tiffany (@TippCee) January 16, 2013
I intend to “do the right thing” with my AR-15. I’m oiling it.
— Bob Owens (@bob_owens) January 16, 2013
Newsflash for #Obama: the AR15 is not designed for war. The M16 is, but they’re not available in gun stores. #tcot
— Bryan Preston (@texasbryanp) January 16, 2013
Executive orders just issued on the feelings of third graders.Shows the mental capacity of a liberal pretty clearly.#TGDN #2A
— Luke (@kingsofluke) January 16, 2013
Summary of Obama’s gun proposals: scribd.com/doc/120650415/…
— Jessica Seale (@JessaNaomi) January 16, 2013
The “letters from third graders” sourcing of Administration policy is explanatory of a great many things.
— Joshua Treviño (@jstrevino) January 16, 2013
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Orders that are particularly troubling from my perspective:
2.Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system. – how many mentally ill/disturbed patients share anything with their doctors now?
14.Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence. – this one is not only a joke but a total waste of my tx dollars
16.Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes. – guns have nothing to do with my flu
And finally, the fact that the only justification for going ahead on this that the Pres cited, were the letters from children (props), but to that the below tweet from Tiffany@TippCee is powerful rebuttal:
Why didn’t @BarackObama have any 15-year-old gang members from Chicago sitting behind him? #guncontrol #tcot #lnyht #2ndAmendment
He really is a fascist.
He really, really is.
Oddly enough, today is the anniversary of North Carolina, Utah, Nebraska, Missouri and Wyoming ratifying the Eighteenth Amendment, pushing it beyond the three-fourths needed for ratification.
How’d that liquor ban work out?
OK Robbie, I’ve looked at the 23 edicts and I’ve got my comments below:
1. If we’re going to have a background check before purchasing firearms from a dealer, then it makes sense to have relevant data in it. A car is useless without fuel; a database is useless without data. But how much you want to bet that the 5,216,732 records of illegal aliens end up not being classified as “relevant data”?
2. Unless some felon fesses up that he shot himself with an illegally-obtained firearm (yeah right) this will be meaningless.
3. You mean “incentives” such as either lower the drinking age to 18 or lose federal highway funds?
4. Isn’t that part of the AG’s duties now?
5. You mean they can’t do that now? I would think that would be standard practice in any investigation, to determine if the gun was stolen, etc.
6. I think they know how to do that. Clearly better than the Feds can maintain their database to be used in the check.
7. Don’t we already have those?
8. An what will the CPSC propose? That the gun safe be welded shut?
OK this is getting big so I’ll address the others in separate posts.
OK here comes the next batch:
9. This is clearly overstepping their bounds. And it’s duplicative anyhow–ANY criminal investigation where a gun is found will involve tracing it.
10. If this report has any usefulness (and given how poor the Feds are, probably not) then why hasn’t it already been released?
11. Shouldn’t the POTUS have already done that?
12. I think that any decent law enforcement entity already has that training (and it will probably be better than anything the Feds can propose). First responders as well. School officials can really do little more than teach students how to get out or hide quickly (the City of Houston has a pretty good video on what to do).
13. Again, isn’t that what prosecutors should already be doing?
14. I don’t particularly care for legislation that would prohibit it (more show than meaning) but I can’t see what it would accomplish.
15. How would this have stopped Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, Nadal at Fort Hood, or the Killeen Luby’s incidents?
16. Who said this was keeping doctors from asking this question? And outside of dealing with someone like Jared Loughner (and even that’s debatable), what good would it do?
Part 3 coming next.
Part 3 below:
17. Again as with #16, who said health care providers were prohibited from doing so? And in most cases, someone planning violence isn’t going to volunteer this info?
18. See comments above on #3.
19. I think there are plenty of those floating around, a simple Google search should get me there.
20. And this will accomplish what?
21. See #20. Also this sounds a lot like “never let a crisis go to waste”.
22. See #21.
23. See #20.
And to bring this around to our favorite topic–upcoming executions–our January 27 execution features a killer who stabbed her victim. Even if we lived in a unicorn-filled world where all these executive orders would be followed to the letter, it would not have done anything in this case.
Do you believe the execution is likely? I saw certiorari was denied about a week ago for McCarthy, but with the USSC’s erratic decisions on last-minute capital case appeals, the uncertainty still bothers me.
The USSC has not been erratic on too many cases involving Texas. The erratic one was out of Florida and that one was bizarre to say the least.
The last two that were stayed involved cases where there was a significant dissenting opinion or opinions from members of the 5th Circuit (which is quite conservative); I would expect that such an opinion would raise eyebrows and at least warrant a closer look.
McCarthy was denied last week (and there are a few others as well so you may see some more dates pop up on the TDCJ list); I expect hers to go through as planned.
The Kenyan issuing himself an EO to hire a Director of the ATF tells us that this was just more Kabuki, not a serious policy forum.
He voted present…again.
And since this EO Kabuki was “FOR THE CHILDREN”…
The painful irony of this is that a man with NO background, is imposing stringent background checks on the people that elected him, while fighting similar, though not nearly as comprehensive proposals to verify the electorate is legally voting.
This situation somehow reminds me of a Groucho Marx quote about “never joining a club that would have somebody like me for a member”.
The finite amount of “common sense” that is allotted to this little planet has been sorely diluted by population expansion and television. The era of “bread and circuses” has arrived in the Republic and this time it appears that the “ignorant savages” that will destroy our culture come from within our own populace and are led by an irresponsible pagan media.
*poof*
Nice quip, now turn off the TV and read a little history….
That’s julia, the mentally ill canadian, from the AI blog.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Exactly which of the above infringes upon your second amendment rights?
that happens to be the 2nd amendment